Boxing is not the same..

[TitoFan]

Adding to the personalities in boxing part...

In the past you had the Trinidads, the De La Hoyas. You had Barrera and Morales waging wars and in their primes. Pacquiao was in his prime. Hatton had the whole UK behind him. The heavyweights, before Wlad came in and chloroformed the division and fans' interest in it.... had Tyson, Lewis, etc. The division was more exciting. You had the "Great White American Hopes" like Pavlik, before he went south. Most of these guys were likable, and good ambassadors to their sport. There were plenty of mega-wars involving these and other fighters I know I forgot to mention.

Nowadays all these guys are gone. Floyd could've been one of those, but he's too polarizing for people to get 100% behind him. Besides that, who's left? GGG's great, but doesn't have the mass appeal of any of the above, for whatever reason. Wlad is gone, thankfully, but the riff-raff that's left behind doesn't yank the public's chain. The big names just aren't as big as they used to be.

Who knows... maybe it's cyclic, and we're about to enter into another golden age. There's a lot of young, exciting talent coming up. We're going to need some true wars and rivalries (like Barrera-Morales, Ali-Frazier, Gatti-Ward) to get the public interest back. Unfortunately, MMA is here to stay, and boxing's just going to have to share the attention.

[Dia bando]

There are still some great fighters to watch we can still be entertained,! remember they don't have to be title fights good domestic dust ups, yes boxing is still alive and kicking.

[Mr140]

Look if you look at the sports in a world perspective you will see that the boxing game has a lot on Ufc. I mean they have America and Brazil they might have some more Uk followers now because the Count won the belt but thats it. I am older then the Ufc i mean you can see boxing footage from the early 1900s for crying out loud this sport so fucking old not even funny. UFC fighters get paid shit and the numbers i have seen are not in boxing league. Their top fighter made 27 Million this year and thats a record and no one is near him boxers in the 1920's are making more then the modern ufc fighter is today. I like UFC but there fans say there sport is dead all the time on sherdog its a thread made everyday. World wide boxing is fine and most likely will be fine when we are all dead has been for over a century.

[erics44]

boxing is the same, old fights and the period they were in are always looked on with rose tinted glasses


I watched Ali Frazier the other day, 3rd on I think it was, what a shit fight


not in the same shitness league as any of klits fights ill give you that, not on your nelly


but shit non the less, there has been many better heavyweight fights than that over the years


yet that is looked back on as one of the greats, top 10 fights of all time

[Master]

boxing is the same, old fights and the period they were in are always looked on with rose tinted glasses


I watched Ali Frazier the other day, 3rd on I think it was, what a shit fight


not in the same shitness league as any of klits fights ill give you that, not on your nelly


but shit non the less, there has been many better heavyweight fights than that over the years


yet that is looked back on as one of the greats, top 10 fights of all time

You must mean the 2nd Ali v Frazier fight the other 2 were excellent.

[erics44]

boxing is the same, old fights and the period they were in are always looked on with rose tinted glasses


I watched Ali Frazier the other day, 3rd on I think it was, what a shit fight


not in the same shitness league as any of klits fights ill give you that, not on your nelly


but shit non the less, there has been many better heavyweight fights than that over the years


yet that is looked back on as one of the greats, top 10 fights of all time

You must mean the 2nd Ali v Frazier fight the other 2 were excellent.

The one where frazier didn't come out for the last round

[Master]

boxing is the same, old fights and the period they were in are always looked on with rose tinted glasses


I watched Ali Frazier the other day, 3rd on I think it was, what a shit fight


not in the same shitness league as any of klits fights ill give you that, not on your nelly


but shit non the less, there has been many better heavyweight fights than that over the years


yet that is looked back on as one of the greats, top 10 fights of all time

You must mean the 2nd Ali v Frazier fight the other 2 were excellent.

The one where frazier didn't come out for the last round

Eric you really must have lost it. That was the thriller in manilla, whilst they were older and slower, the fight was better because they just battered one another with rage and hate. It was brutal and Ali said the closest he came to death in the ring. Re-watch it from that perspective.